Mick Marchington's contributions to employee voice, participation, and involvement are broad deep. This scholarship is consistently distinguished by a rejection of ‘one-size-fits-all’ approaches in favour complex, multi-layered understandings. We reflect on some key involvement, with an emphasis the importance internal actors who conditioned diverse external influences. also illustrate lasting ...

The article presents a set of experiments on pathological voice detection over the Saarbrücken Voice Database (SVD). The SVD is freely available online containing a collection of voice recordings of different pathologies, both functional and organic. It includes recordings for more than 2000 speakers in which sustained vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/ are pronounced with normal, low, high, and low-high...

results certain correlations were found between fundamental frequency in vowel and total vhi, physical, functional and emotional domains of vhi in group 1 (r = 0.636, 0.649, 0.613 and 0.592 respectively). there was good correlation between speaking fundamental frequency and total vhi and its subscales - except the physical subscale - were also correlated. in group 2, the correlations between ji...

Despite a growing body of research on employee voice—defined as the discretionary communication of ideas, suggestions, or opinions intended to improve organizational or unit functioning—the effects of shared or collective-level cognitions have received scant attention. There has also been relatively little research on voice within work groups. Our goal in this study was to address these importa...

Academic writing is not just about presenting a set of ideas, but through the act of writing, the authors position themselves as individuals having particular identities which mostly reflect the dominant sociocultural values and practices of the discourse communities in which they are living and performing. The present study, using a mixed method approach, attempted to explore the evidences of ...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that hearing-aid users have difficulties with own-voice level control, most likely because their auditory feedback is affected by hearing-aid amplification. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate how changes to auditory feedback affect the voice level of hearing-aid users. RESEARCH DESIGN A correlational study was set up to investigate the relation...

background and objectives: patients experience moderate to high level of anxiety before cardiac catheterization. this study aimed to investigate the effect of voice of quran on anxiety before cardiac catheterization. methods: in this randomized controlled trial, 60 patients who met the inclusion criteria were conveniently sampled and randomly allocated to the experimental and control groups. in...